laws and other things. otherwise these legislatures controlled by republicans will continue to do these things. i'm reminded of the old j pchlpn quote. there are two reasons a man does things. the reason he says and then the real reason he does things. >> there are members of congress trying to promote it, but i think we have to disaggregate what congress does in sponsor state legislatures and how people react on the ground and grass roots. what i heard about joy reid reporting to you from her time on the ground is the message here which i think is inspire to go a lot of people is last time they tried to stop him and he won. this time they're trying to stop all of us. doesn't matter really what we look like. a although a lot of this is based on stopping people who support obama including based on race, but guess what, like all voter suppression, it's bad for address so we can all get together on that. >> and this point that it's bad for democracy, as much as i love the ways that we've had to focus on, all r